Karina Sainz Borgo

Biography

Karina Sainz Borgo (born 1982, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer who has lived in Spain since 2006. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and her stories have been published in magazines such as Granta en español. Among Sainz's most important works are It Would Be Night in Caracas, her first novel, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, and No Place to Bury the Dead, which was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize.Along with authors such as Keila Vall de la Ville, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Michelle Roche Rodríguez, María Elena Morán, and Camilo Pino, she is part of what critics have called the "literature of the diaspora" or "exodus".